New York Times’ Hypocrisy Regarding Palin’s Experience

By Patrick Henry 

 

The Wall Street Journal located this remarkable New York Times‘ editorial from July 3, 1984:

Where is it written that only senators are qualified to become President? . . . Or where is it written that mere representatives aren’t qualified, like Geraldine Ferraro of Queens? . . . Where is it written that governors and mayors, like Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, are too local, too provincial? . . . Presidential candidates have always chosen their running mates for reasons of practical demography, not idealized democracy. . . . What a splendid system, we say to ourselves, that takes little-known men, tests them in high office and permits them to grow into statesmen. . . . Why shouldn’t a little-known woman have the same opportunity to grow?

Of course, the Times was supporting Geraldine Ferraro’s nomination for Vice President in 1984. Now, with a Republican woman on the ticket, the Times has repeatedly questioned Sarah Palin’s credentials — or, as the Times called her, the “mayor of a tiny Anchorage suburb” (momentarily overlooking Palin is also a sitting governor). Obviously, the Times‘ opinion is solely dependent on whether a person has a D or R behind their name — and not the merits.